Scientific Committee and Chairs

Sandro Barni

Director Emeritus, Oncology ASST BG Ovest, Ospedale Treviglio (BG), Italy

Manuel Muñoz

Department of Surgical Specialties, Biochemistry and Immunology, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain Member of NATA’s Board of Directors
(Network for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management, Haemostasis and Thrombosis) Scientific Associate IFPBM
(International Foundation for Patient Blood Management)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21TH

  • 09:00

    OPENING CEREMONY AND WELCOME ADDRESS

    Sandro Barni

    Manuel Muñoz

  • 09:15

    KEYNOTE LECTURE:
    IRON TREATMENT IN THE PANDEMIC ERA

    Speaker: Professor (Emeritus) Ioav Cabantchik

    President, IBIS: International Bioiron Society 

    International Society for the Study of Iron in Biology and Medicine

    Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

  • 10:00-11:30

    First Session
    GASTROENTEROLOGY

    Chairs: Nicola Ferri (Padova, Italy)

    Sandro Barni

  • 10:00

    SUPPLEMENTATION WITH SUCROSOMIAL® IRON
    LEADS TO FAVOURABLE CHANGES
    IN THE INTESTINAL MICROBIOME 

    Speaker: David Frazer

    Molecular Nutrition Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, Australia

  • 10:20

    IRON DEFICIENCY AND CELIAC DISEASE

    Speaker:Rosanna Cannatelli 

    UOC Gastroenterologia e Endoscopia Digestiva, ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco, Milano

  • 10:40

    TREATING IRON DEFICIENCY
    IN PATIENTS WITH ULCERATIVE COLITIS

    Speaker: Lorenzo Bertani

    Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

  • 11:00

    SUCROSOMIAL® IRON SUPPLEMENTATION
    IN IBD PATIENTS REFRACTORY
    TO ORAL IRON TREATMENT

    Speaker: Guillermo Bastida 

    Department of Digestive Diseases. University Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain

  • 11:20

    SESSION DISCUSSION

  • 11:30

    COFFEE BREAK

  • 12:00-13:30

    SECOND SESSION
    Internal Medicine

    Chairs: Alessandro Lucchesi (Meldola, Italy)

    Hematology Unit, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy

  • 12:00

    SUCROSOMIAL® IRON TISSUE DISTRIBUTION IN
    A HIGH HEPCIDIN EXPRESSION MODEL

    Speaker: Maura Poli

    Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy

  • 12:15

    SUCROSOMIAL® IRON HIGH DOSES
    AND BONE MARROW MACROPHAGES POLARIZATION

    Speaker: Giulio Giordano

    Division of Internal Medicine, Hematology Service, Regional Hospital 

    “ A. Cardarelli”, Campobasso, Italy

  • 12:35

    ORAL SUCROSOMIAL® IRON IMPROVES EXERCISE
    CAPACITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN HEART FAILURE
    WITH REDUCED EJECTION FRACTION AND IRON DEFICIENCY

    Speaker: Georgios Papingiotis

    Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiology, Attikon University Hospital, Na- tional and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

  • 12:55

    ORAL SUCROSOMIAL® IRON IN HEART h. 12:55 FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION
    AND IRON DEFICIENCY

    Speaker: José Luís Morales

    Heart Failure Unit, Health Care Region of Lleida, University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, Spain

  • 13:15

    SESSION DISCUSSION

  • 13:30

    Lunch break

  • 14:45-16:00

    THIRD SESSION
    PEDIATRICS

    Chairs: Carlo Agostoni (Milano, Italy)

    Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

  • 14:45

    IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA IN CHILDREN:
    RISK FACTORS, PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY

    Speaker: Lydia Kossiva

    Department of Pediatrics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, “P & A Kyriakou” Children’s Hospital

  • 15:10

    IRON DEFICIENCY RELATED
    TO GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS

    Speaker: Marina Aloi

    Department of Maternal and Child Health, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Liver Unit, Umberto I Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

  • 15:30

    IRON SUPPLEMENTAION IN PEDIATRICS PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA:
    AN IRIDA CLINICAL CASE

    Speaker: Giulia D’Arrigo

    Onco-Hematology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Policlinico G.Barresi, Messina, Italy

  • 15:50

    SESSION DISCUSSION

  • 16:00

    Non-CME Lecture
    SUCROSOMIAL® IRON UPDATES

    Speaker: Germano Tarantino

    Chief Scientific Officer Pharmanutra SpA, Pisa, Italy

  • 16:20

    QUESTION TIME

  • 16:30

    Closure first day

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22TH

  • 08:30

    Second day Introduction

    Chairs: Sandro Barni 

    Manuel Muñoz 

  • 08:40

    MACROPHAGE-MEDIATED METABOLISM
    OF SUCROSOMIAL IRON

    Speaker: Francesca Vinchi 

    Iron Research Laboratory, New York Blood Center, New York, USA
    Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA

  • 09:00 -10:45

    FIFTH SESSION
    PBM  

    Chairs: Manuel Muñoz 

    Alicia Vilaseca Hematology Service San Camilo Clinic Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • 09:00

    KEYNOTE LECTURE
    MANAGEMENT OF IRON DEFICIENCY IN PBM: THE PANDEMIC’S BARRIERS

    Speaker: Jens Meier

    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kepler University, Linz, Austria.

  • 09:30

    IMPLEMENTATION OF A PRE-OPERATIVE
    OPTIMIZATION PROTOCOL WITH
    SUCROSOMIAL IRON IN CARDIAC SURGERY

    Speaker: Luca Weltert

    Cardiosurgery Division, European Hospital, Rome, Italy 

  • 09:50

    IRON-DEFICIENCY ANEMIA AND
    FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY IN POST-CARDIAC
    SURGICAL PATIENTS: COMPARISON BETWEEN
    TWO MARTIAL TREATMENTS

    Speaker: Elio Venturini

    U.O.S. Riabilitazione Cardiologica, Ospedale Civile,  Cecina, Italy

  • 10:10

    IS THERE A ROLE FOR ORAL IRON IN PBM
    FOR ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY?

    Speaker: Manuel Muñoz

    Department of Surgical Specialties, Biochemistry and Immunology, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain

  • 10:30

    Session Discussion

  • 10:45

    COFFEE BREAK

  • 11:15-12:00

    SIXTH SESSION
    OBSTETRICS

    Chairs: Manuel Muñoz 

  • 11:15

    IRON PROPHYLAXIS IN PREGNANT WOMEN
    AND PREGNANCY OUTCOMES

    Speaker: Francesca Parisi

    Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, “Vittore Buzzi” Children’s Hospital, Milan, Italy

  • 11:30

    PATIENT BLOOD MANAGEMENT:
    ANAEMIA IN PREGNANCY

    Speaker: Maria Beatrice Rondinelli

    Patient Blood Management Unit, San Camilo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy

  • 11.45

    SUCROSOMIAL® IRON EFFECTIVENESS
    IN RECOVERING IRON-DEFICIENCY
    IN POSTPARTUM WOMEN WITH MILD
    AND MODERATE ANEMIA

    Speaker: Antoine Edu 

    Gynecology Department, Bucharest, Romania

  • 11:55

    SESSION DISCUSSION  

  • 12:00-13:15

    SEVENTH SESSION
    Oncology

    Chairs: Sandro Barni 

    Mariasanta Napolitano PROMISE Department, University of Palermo, Hematology UOS Hemostasis and Thrombosis, AOUP “P. Giaccone”, Palermo, Italy

  • 12:00

    CLINICAL SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF
    IRON SUPPLEMENTATION IN CANCER PATIENTS

    Speaker: Andrea Antonuzzo

    Medical Oncology Unit, Pisa, Italy

  • 12:20

    SUCROSOMIAL® IRON SUPPLEMENTATION
    IN PATIENTS WITH CHEMOTHERAPY-RELATED
    ANEMIA TREATED WITH ESA:
    A RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL

    Speaker: Paolo Pedrazzoli

    Department of Oncology, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation and University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

  • 12:35

    IRON STATUS IN GERIATRIC ONCOLOGY

    Speaker: Fausto Pretelli

    ASST Bergamo Ovest, Italy

  • 12:50

    SESSION DISCUSSION

  • 13:00

    UP-TO-DATE REVIEW OF PUBLISHED
    CLINICAL RESEARCH ON SUCROSOMIAL® IRON:
    what we missed?

    Speaker: Manuel Muñoz

    Department of Surgical Specialties, Biochemistry and Immunology, 

    University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain

  • 13:20

    Closure

    Sandro Barni

    Manuel Muñoz

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CME CREDITS FOR ITALIAN DELEGATES

The course is pending accreditation at the Ministry of Health for the professional figure of Pharmacist and Physician for the following disciplines: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, General Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Haematology, Gastroenterology, Geriatrics, Gynaecology and Midwifery, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Internal Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Transfusion Medicine, Nephrology, Neonatology, Oncology, Orthopaedics and Traumatology, ENT, Paediatrics, Radiodiagnostics, Radiotherapy, Food Science and Dietetics.

CME Scientific Coordinator

Sandro Barni
Director Emeritus, Oncology ASST BG Ovest, Ospedale Treviglio (BG), Italy

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